Happy Fall!  Boy is the world stirred up with some blustery winds of change and turmoil? Seems everywhere I look there is uncertainty.  I'm trying to cling to God's promise and stand rooted in Him.  I know you are too.  My prayers seemed focused on our leaders and our country.  My heart overflows with concern for our spiritual future in this land.  But God knows...

After two months of feeling RAW - I think I'm back on the level.  Nothing like some national crisis to put my own troubles into perspective. 

But despite all that...we have an exciting month coming up!  Our family is headed to Washington DC for a month long field trip - and educational smorgasborg.  It is the realization of a goal we set five years ago and we really didn't know how it was going to come all together, but it did.  The economic slow down is allowing us to leave our business in the reliable hands of our employees and take the kids on trip of a lifetime.  I still can't believe we going. 

So if anyone has tips or hints about visiting our capitol - I'm all ears.  We will be using The Providence Foundations - In God We Trust guidebook so that we don't over look the imprint of faith our founding fathers left for us. 

I'm also trying hard to let the trip be the education and not try to cram in a bunch of busy paper work.  I'm resisting so far.  Can anyone relate?  I mean - I prepared a lesson plan for our trip to Disneyworld?  Get a life right?  Needless to say - we had a nice stack of scratch paper from that misjudgement.  But this is a little different  so I'm asking God to show me wht is best for our family. 

Blessings to you!

H